tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:/en/indexmite.blog2015-02-20T11:08:19+01:00Ankie! (fork of enki)mite.teamteam@yo.lktag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3882015-02-20T11:07:00+01:002015-02-20T11:08:19+01:00Updated: mite.go, the iPhone app for mite<p>Oh no, this update does not only feature a pimped button here and a prettier color there. Daniel Rinser and Victor Saar re-built their native iPhone app <a href="http://www.mite-go.com/"><em>mite</em>.go</a> from scratch.</p>
<p>Although <em>mite</em>.go kept its main features, the new version feels quite different. Adding time entries, running the timer, managing customers, projects, and services—all of these tasks can be handled much more smoothly, thanks to the re-thought interface, optimized for current iPhones with larger Retina displays and iOS8.</p>
<p><img width="553px" src="/uploads/mitego-en-new.png" alt="mite.go: Time tracking iPhone app" /></p>
<p>The detached timer tab is gone. Instead, you can now access all time tracking features directly from one single tab, as you’re used to from <em>mite</em>. Plus, the weekly calendar found its way into <em>mite</em>.go, too.</p>
<p>Last but not least, <em>mite</em>.go caught up from a technical point of view. Unsurprisingly, lots of things have changed since <a href="http://blog.yo.lk/en/2010/01/08/launch-mite-go-the-time-tracking-app-for-iphone-ipod-touch">2010</a>, when the two independant developers released the first version of their app.</p>
<p>Please head over to the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mite.go/id345675066?mt=8&uo=4">App Store to download the update</a>. If you use <em>mite</em>.go already, the update is for free. For new users, it’s $4.99 (4.99 €, 5.00 <span class="caps">CHF</span>).</p>
<p>Please note: <a href="http://www.mite-go.com/"><em>mite</em>.go</a> communicates with your <em>mite</em>.account through the <em>mite</em>.api, our open data interface. You’ll have to allow <span class="caps">API</span> access for your account first, so the app will be able to work properly. Click on your user name in the upper right-hand corner of <em>mite</em> to allow <span class="caps">API</span> access.</p>
<p>Thanks for your dedication, Daniel and Victor!</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3872014-12-19T16:17:00+01:002014-12-19T16:18:21+01:00Upcoming VAT changes for users from the EU<p>Starting on January 1st, 2015, new <span class="caps">VAT</span> laws will apply for so-called electronic services in the European Union. These changes will affect <em>mite</em>, too. Our company is registered in Germany.</p>
<p>Until now, users from the EU are charged &#8220;our&#8221; German <span class="caps">VAT</span> rate of 19%. From 2015, users from the EU will be charged the <span class="caps">VAT</span> rate of their country of residence.</p>
<p>We do not want to raise the final price for <em>mite</em>. Thus, we implemented the tax changes in a way so all current customers will continue to pay the same price for <em>mite</em>, or even a couple of Cents less. In case of doubt, it&#8217;s on us to earn a little less.</p>
<p>Only future business customers from Luxembourg or Malta will have to pay some more Cents.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re into EU tax laws, or wonder why you will have to pay even less in 2015: we got you covered. Please read-on for all the details and examples.</p>
<p>[more]<ol class="list-alpha"><li>For businesses and individuals who reside in Germany (as stated in their invoice address), nothing changes. <em>mite</em> will continue to be €5.00 per user per month, including 19% <span class="caps">VAT</span>.</li><br />
<li>For businesses and individuals who reside outside of the EU, nothing changes. We don&#8217;t have to charge <span class="caps">VAT</span>. <em>mite</em> will continue to be €4.20 per user per month.</li><br />
<li>For individuals who reside inside the EU but outside of Germany, we keep the current price, too. <em>mite</em> will continue to be €5.00 per user per month, including <span class="caps">VAT</span>.<br />From 2015, the <span class="caps">VAT</span> rate will change if your national <span class="caps">VAT</span> rate differs from the German one, 19%. E.g., for individual users from the UK, the final price of €5 will then include 20% <span class="caps">VAT</span>. And we&#8217;ll earn a little less.</li><br />
<li>For businesses who reside inside the EU but outside of Germany, not much changes. In most cases, <em>mite</em> will even be some Cents less.<br />We still won&#8217;t have to charge German <span class="caps">VAT</span>, reverse charge applies. Until now, we charge &#8220;the German&#8221; net price, €4.20 per user per month. From 2015, we will calculate the net price depending on your national <span class="caps">VAT</span> rate. E.g., the net price for business customers from the UK will be €4.17, because <span class="caps">VAT</span> is 20% there. To prove that you&#8217;re a business, please fill in your valid EU <span class="caps">VAT</span> registration number at the tab »Account =&gt; Payment«.</li></ol></p>
<p>Thanks for your attention. And back to more important things: happy holidays and cheers to a grand 2015!</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3862014-11-24T19:25:00+01:002014-11-24T19:27:34+01:00More flexible filters<p>Even filters should get back to school once in a while, and <em>mite</em>&#8217;s filters were happy to: Now they know how to handle the Boolean search operator OR. And because they are smart <span class="caps">AND</span> kind filters, they wrapped their new skills in a simple-to-use interface.</p>
<p><img width="553px" src="/uploads/mite-multiple-filters-reports-time-entries.png" alt="Reports - Time entries: multiple filters" /></p>
<p>On the list of all time entries at the tab »Reports =&gt; Time entries«, you could only filter by one single element of each category. Now, multiple selects are available. For example, you can now filter by two or more projects at once. Customers, projects, services, and users got multiple selects too.</p>
<p>When you select one filter of a category, a plus-shaped button will appear on the right-hand side of the select. Click on this button to select an additional filter of the same category. When you select two or more filters of the same category, additional minus-shaped buttons will appear next to the selects. Click on one of these buttons to remove the associated filter.</p>
<p><img width="553px" src="/uploads/mite-multiple-filters-reports-projects.png" alt="Reports - Projects: multiple filters" /></p>
<p>At the tab »Reports =&gt; Projects«, you can now make use of the new multiple selects, too. Filter by one, two, or more customers, just as you wish.</p>
<p>Hopefully, these new mighty filters will help you to analyse your data better! Give them a try and tell us how they are working for you. We’d love to get feedback.</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3852014-11-11T14:50:00+01:002014-11-11T14:54:03+01:00Freedom for mite.desk<p><em>mite</em>.desk, the windows client for <em>mite</em> developed by <a href="http://www.69grad.de/">69°</a>&#8216;s Thomas Bandt in 2009, is free now: it&#8217;s available <a href="https://github.com/aspnetde/mite.desk">on GitHub under a free licence</a>. If you&#8217;re a user, you can download it for free. If you&#8217;re a developer, you can improve, extend, built-on, or learn from it as you wish.</p>
<p>Thanks for your great decision, Thomas! We really appreciate it. It&#8217;s fair, wise, and awesome to open source a project instead of silently shutting it down, in case one does not have the time or energy to maintain it anymore. Fingers crossed for you, <em>mite</em>.desk: hopefully, you&#8217;ll meet some kind developers who wish to grant you a second life.</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3842014-10-27T12:36:00+01:002014-10-27T12:37:22+01:00Meet Clockson, the new iPhone app for mite<p>Hear hear, iPhone users: There&#8217;s a new app to track your time on the go, <a href="http://www.ninjaconcept.com/clockson">Clockson</a>!</p>
<p><img width="276px" src="/uploads/clockson-screenshot-retina2.png" alt="Time tracking on the iPhone with Clockson" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ninjaconcept.com/">NinjaConcept</a>, a software studio from Germany, initially developed the app for themselves. Now, they released the app into the wild, so all other <em>mite</em>.users can track their time via Clockson, too. Besides manually adding your hours, you can let the timer do the tracking. In the footer of the app, you can see at a glance how many hours you already worked on the current day, the current week, or the current month. Clockson is a simple yet helpful app with a fresh, clean look.</p>
<p>Clockson is <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clockson/id872703970?mt=8">available on the App Store for free</a>, and will remain free for the near future.</p>
<p>Please note: <a href="http://www.ninjaconcept.com/clockson">Clockson</a> communicates with your <em>mite</em>.account through the <em>mite</em>.api, our open data interface. You’ll have to allow <span class="caps">API</span> access for your account first, so the app will be able to work properly. Click on your user name in the upper right-hand corner of <em>mite</em> to allow <span class="caps">API</span> access.</p>
<p>If you give <a href="http://www.ninjaconcept.com/clockson">Clockson</a> a try, please be so kind to take a minute to leave a review on the App Store, or a comment right here. You’ll not only support the Ninjas in improving their app, but you’ll also help other users with your opinion. Thanks in advance for your feedback—and thanks to the Ninjas for your dedication!</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3832014-05-21T12:50:00+02:002014-05-21T12:54:24+02:00Updated background engines<p>Since last night, <em>mite</em> is running on a new version of its underlying application framework. Starting at 1am (<span class="caps">CEST</span>), we took <em>mite</em> offline for about 15 minutes to deploy the update and perform some database migrations.</p>
<p>If you cannot notice anything working differently, we put our thumbs up. Yes, the update speeds up <em>mite</em> a little bit and will help us maintaining it, but it did not change anything on a feature level. Nevertheless, if you happen to stumble upon a bug, please tell us so we can fix it right away. Send us a detailed e-mail which includes information on your browser version. Thanks!</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3822014-04-10T14:15:00+02:002014-04-10T14:18:40+02:00Security update: Heartbleed<p><a href="http://heartbleed.com/">The Heartbleed bug</a> is a vulnerability in OpenSSL that was disclosed on Monday night, April 7th (<span class="caps">CEST</span>). OpenSSL is a very popular cryptographic software library. Approximately two thirds of all servers use it to encypt Internet traffic. The Heartbleed weakness could have been exploited by attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data, and compromise secret keys of <span class="caps">SSL</span> certificates.</p>
<p>Here at <em>mite</em>, we used and are using OpenSSL, too. Today, we want to tell you in detail how we reacted to Heartbleed, when, and which actions we took to secure your data. This information comes a little late. We are sorry about that. On the technical side, we were so much faster! You could rely on us, and you can rely on us in the future, too.</p>
<ul><li>We learned about Heartbleed on Tuesday morning, 9:20am.</li><li> As soon as a security patch was available for our systems, we started to install them. At 12:02am, all of our servers were successfully patched.</li><li> As a measure of precaution, we requested a new <span class="caps">SSL</span> certificate with new keys. We rebooted all servers. Since 12:24am, they use the new certificate. As the certificate was re-issued by DigiCert Inc, you won&#8217;t see this new validation date, don&#8217;t let this fool you.</li><li> We changed all of our passwords on all systems. </li><li> Tonight, we will invalidate all cookies. You will have to log-in again.</li></ul>
<p>Better safe than sorry, so please change your passwords for <em>mite</em>, too. Click on your user name in the upper right-hand side to do that.</p>
<p>OpenSSL is widespread, and Heartbleed thus affected lots of services. Please think about changing your password for other services, too, especially webmail services. You can check whether or not a service is patched thanks to services such as <a href="http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/">this one</a>. If so, check if the certificate is a new one, or ask if it was re-issued. Then, change your password.</p>
<p>Thanks for your attention. Now back to work!</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3812014-01-27T16:52:00+01:002014-01-27T16:53:21+01:00Recurring project budgets<p>Machinery needs a little bit of grease every now and then, software an update, and a home a cleaning. Some projects lack the one big final »Done!«—and a feature to budget them smoothly in <em>mite</em>. E.g., if you agreed with your client on maintaining a project for 20 hours a month, you had to add a new project every single month to keep a keen eye on its budget.</p>
<p>No more! You can now set a monthly budget for a project, too. As usually, you can budget in hours or euro or another currency. Simply choose the brand spanking new option »hours per month« or »euros per month«, when adding or editing a project on the tab »Projects«.</p>
<p><img src="/uploads/mite-budgets-activate.png" alt="Set a monthly budget for a project" /></p>
<p><em>mite</em> will then display the percentual useage of the monthly budget and the remaining or exceeded hours or euros in all the familiar places. If the budget exceeds 75%, it will show up on your dashboard report as &#8216;critical&#8217;. Budgets will always be displayed on »Reports =&gt; Projects« and on project reports, including possible shared reports.</p>
<p><img src="/uploads/mite-budgets-project.png" alt="Project report: budget status of the current month" /></p>
<p>The project report of active projects will show the budget status of the current month in the upper right-hand corner. The report of archived projects will show the budget average instead.</p>
<p><img src="/uploads/mite-budgets-project-detail.png" alt="Project report of an active project: budget status for all months" /></p>
<p>Click on »Show all months« to have a thorough look at the historical budget data, starting with the first month you tracked a time entry on.</p>
<p>If you did not track any time entries at all on a given month, the average will be calculated excluding this month. Add a time entry with 0:00 to force <em>mite</em> to include an easy-going month in the average.</p>
<p>Hopefully, this update will help you to manage recurring budgets more smoothly. We&#8217;d love to hear some feedback. Give it a try and tell us how it&#8217;s working for you. Thanks!</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3792013-12-17T19:08:00+01:002013-12-17T19:09:13+01:00Migrating to SEPA direct debit <p>Here at <em>mite</em>, we&#8217;re migrating to the new European payment standard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area"><span class="caps">SEPA</span></a>, too. Although this affects you only a little bit, we have to and want to let you know about all upcoming adjustments that will become effective on February 1st, 2014.</p>
<p>If you pay user fees per direct debit from a German bank account, we will start <span class="caps">SEPA</span> direct debiting your bank account as of February 1st. Your account number and the bank code will become <span class="caps">IBAN</span> and <span class="caps">BIC</span>. We already converted your bank information for you. Nevertheless, please have a look at the tab »Account =&gt; Payment« and double-check. You can find your <span class="caps">IBAN</span> and <span class="caps">BIC</span> on your bank statement.</p>
<p>For now, paying user fees for <em>mite</em> via direct debit continues to be available for German bank accounts only. As soon as our payment partners will implement direct debit for other <span class="caps">SEPA</span> countries, we&#8217;ll consider this enhancement too, yes of course.</p>
<p>Due to <span class="caps">SEPA</span>, we also updated our Terms of Service. We only adjusted §6 Payment/Invoice. The term »direct debit« now reads »SEPA direct debit«. And we added a single phrase: »The pre-notification period of a <span class="caps">SEPA</span> direct debit is shortened to 1 day.«.</p>
<p>Our updated ToS will become effective on February 1st, 2014. Please find them <a href="http://mite.yo.lk/en/terms-as-of-20140201.html">right here</a>. If you do not object within six weeks in textual form (e.g. via e-mail), you accept our updated ToS. Should you object, we&#8217;re entitled to terminate and end our contract on February 1st, 2014.</p>
<p>Thanks for your attention. Now back to more important things!</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3782013-08-12T14:37:00+02:002013-08-12T14:38:44+02:00Still using IE7? Please update!<p><em>mite</em> will end official support of the Internet Explorer 7 on September 12th. We won&#8217;t optimize and fix for this browser version anymore.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re still using IE7, please update soon—on version 8 at least, or, better, on the current version 10. A free update is available directly from Microsoft. Or, switch to a current version of <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/">Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox browser</a>, or Google&#8217;s Chrome.</p>
<p>Internet Explorer 7 was released in October 2006. Seven years ago, aka 42 cat or Internet years. In the meantime, browsers improved big time. They got faster and more secure. We have to work around the constraints of IE7 during every single update. Sometimes, we even developed special slimmed-down versions of a feature. We&#8217;d like to put this time to a better use, so all users benefit. Better browsers are available, and, luckily, ~99,3% of all <em>mite</em>.users do run them. Dear 0,3%: Please update now. Other sites will be grateful for that, too, and will show their gratitude with a smoother behavior. Thanks!</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3772013-07-05T18:02:00+02:002013-07-05T18:03:54+02:00Planscope project management integrates with mite<p>The web-based project management tool <a href="https://planscope.io/">Planscope</a> now integrates with <em>mite</em>. When you start a timer on a task in Planscope, or add a time entry manually, this time will show up in <em>mite</em> too. Thanks to the integration, you won&#8217;t have to add any more time entries twice.</p>
<p><img src="/uploads/mite-planscope2.png" alt="Project management tool Planscope integrates with mite" /></p>
<p>Projects in Planscope can be bundled with projects in <em>mite</em>. Also, you can define a service to which time entries in <em>mite</em> will be assigned. The title of the task in Planscope will be referenced as a note of each time entry in <em>mite</em>. There&#8217;s a short <a href="http://planscope.io/blog/planscope-now-integrates-with-mite-time-tracking/">video</a> on Planscope&#8217;s blog which shows the integration in action.</p>
<p>This new integration was developed and will be taken care of by <a href="https://planscope.io/">Planscope</a>. Thanks a lot for your time and effort, Brennan and team!</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3762013-05-16T16:33:00+02:002013-05-16T16:34:09+02:00Changeable logins<p>Every <em>mite</em>.account is available under its own, unique <span class="caps">URL</span>. When you sign-up for a new account, you choose this personal login. E.g., if your login is »myteam«, you log-in at <em>https://<b>myteam</b>.mite.yo.lk</em>.</p>
<p>You can now change this login—which can be handy if you rename your company for example. The owner of the account and administrators can find this new feature under the tab »Account«.</p>
<p>If you change the login of your account, the renamed account will be at your service under its new address immediately. Please inform your team about the update, so nobody will get lost. Also, the URLs of any <a href="http://mite.yo.lk/en/faq.html#q67">shared reports</a> will change. Thus, please let your clients know, too. Thanks!</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3752013-03-18T16:45:00+01:002013-03-18T16:48:24+01:00Copy time entries as a template<p>Working days often differ strongly in detail, but follow a similar basic structur. At some moment of the day, we usually check our mails, take care of administrative issues, get our team on the same page in a meeting, and push forward our current project.</p>
<p>From today on, you won&#8217;t have to add the same time entries from the ground up every single day. Instead, <em>mite</em> will be happy to help you kickstart your day. With a single click, you can now copy last working day&#8217;s time entries as a template for the current day.</p>
<p><img src="/uploads/mite_copy-time-entries-as-template.png" alt="Copy last working day's entries as a template " /></p>
<p>If you select a day without time entries, you&#8217;ll see a link on the white content area which says »Copy last working day&#8217;s entries as a template«. When you click on it, <em>mite</em> will duplicate the project and service of these time entries, delete their notes, and reset their hours. Now, you can start the timer on any of these template entries, or edit their hours directly.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t need one or several of the copied time entries on the current day, simply delete them. The last working day is the last day on which you added at least one time entry. Time entries with archived projects and/or services won&#8217;t get copied. Of course, you can manually add more time entries to the copied ones. The time tracking features you&#8217;re accustomed with won&#8217;t change at all.</p>
<p>We hope so much that this new feature will help you save some precious time, day by day! Please tell us how the update is working out for you. Constructive feedback is super-important for improving <em>mite</em>. Thanks!</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3742013-02-12T16:55:00+01:002013-02-12T16:56:07+01:00DynaMite 3<p>Hear hear, Mac users: Do you use Lion or higher? Then this is for you. Version 3 of <a href="http://www.mediaatelier.com/DynaMite3/">DynaMite</a>, the sleek <em>mite</em>.client for Mac OS, has arrived!</p>
<p><img src="/uploads/dynamite-3_en.png" alt="DynaMite 3" /></p>
<h3>What is DynaMite?</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.mediaatelier.com/DynaMite3/">DynaMite</a> is an add-on for Mac users which is developed and maintained by Swiss MediaAtelier. DynaMite is kind of a remote for your <em>mite</em>. It sits directly in the menu bar of your Mac. Right here, you&#8217;ll see at a glance if a timer is running, and if so, how many minutes you&#8217;ve been working already. Stop or edit running timers with a single click. Or create a new time entry with a running timer in no time at all.</p>
<h3>What&#8217;s new in version 3?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Idle timers</li>
<li>Time entries with multiline notes</li>
<li>Click a day summary to view the corresponding <em>mite</em>.page</li>
<li>Increase or decrease running timers right from your menu bar</li>
<li>Switch easily between multiple <em>mite</em>.accounts</li>
</ul>
<p>[more]<h3>How much is DynaMite?</h3></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mediaatelier.com/DynaMite3/">DynaMite</a> is an add-on of an independent 3rd party, Swiss MediaAtelier. Thus, you&#8217;ll have to pay a small extra to use it. DynaMite costs €12 (one-time fee). If you upgrade from DynaMite 1 or 2, the upgrade is €5 only. If you bought DynaMite 1 or 2 on or after September 1st, 2012, the upgrade is for free.</p>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.mediaatelier.com/DynaMite3/">DynaMite</a> makes use of our open data interface, the <a href="http://mite.yo.lk/en/api/"><em>mite</em>.api</a>. To setup the connection, you’ll have to activate the <em>mite</em>.api for your user first. You’ll find this option in <em>mite</em> by clicking on your user name in the upper right-hand corner. Please activate the corresponding checkbox there and save your changes.</p>
<p>During set-up, DynaMite will ask for your account name: that’s the subdomain of your <em>mite</em>.account. E.g., if you login at https://acme.mite.yo.lk, the account name is »acme«.</p>
<p>Later on, a window will pop up, asking for your e-mail address and your password, or, your Mac will ask you to access your <em>mite</em>.credentials stored in your keychain. Please enter the credentials asked, or allow access to those infos in your keychain. DynaMite needs those credentials to connect with your <em>mite</em>.account.</p>
<h3>Thanks, MediaAtelier</h3>
<p>Stefan, thanks so much for continuously improving DynaMite! Merci, and grüezi to Züri.</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3732012-11-15T18:05:00+01:002012-11-15T18:07:30+01:00Select menus à la mite: enhanced search<p>The recently launched <a href="http://blog.yo.lk/en/2012/11/12/select-a-la-mite">select menus</a> feature a search to find any given entry in no time at all. We just updated this search: You can now search for groups, too. E.g., if you create a new time entry, you can search the select »Project« not only for a project, but also for a customer. <em>mite</em> will then display all projects of the customer in question.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your numerous feedback suggesting this enhancement! We&#8217;re very happy to know the search feature is utilized to such an extent already.</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3722012-11-12T18:10:00+01:002013-01-28T15:15:04+01:00Select menus à la mite<p>Goodbye standards, salut flexibility! From today on, a home-brewed version of an essential interface element is in operation in all modern browsers. Fully flavored à la <em>mite</em>, search included — please meet our new select menus:</p>
<p><img src="/uploads/mite-selects-time-tracking.png" alt="Select menue à la mite, Create a new time entry" /></p>
<p>Homebrewing gave us the chance to regain full control of the selects, and add some much-requested spice: search. Hopefully, this new flavor will simplify and speed-up every single choice, especially for teams and freelancers juggling a multitude of projects and/or services. Please make your voice heard how the new selects are working out for you. Feedback is much appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks to all those user who got in touch to suggest this update, and to <a href="http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/">Chosen</a>, the open source project which forms the foundation of our version. Merci for releasing the code!</p>
<p>~~<br />
<b>Update, November 13th:</b> Thanks so much for your open and constructive feedback here, via Twitter and e-mail! You made yourself clear: thumbs up for the features, thumbs down for the look and feel. Especially with longer names, the new selects became less clear, and even a a hord of zebras galloping through the selects was spotted.</p>
<p>We heard you. We got back to work. And just published an update of the update. Thanks again for your honest feedback. We do hope that we got it right and really better this time!</p>
<p><img src="/uploads/mite-selects-2.png" alt="Selects à la mite, redone" /></p>
<p>~~<br />
<b>Update, November 14th:</b> If you open the new selects, they now adapt their height to the space available in your browser window. You&#8217;ll see far more elements at a glance on bigger screens.</p>
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<b>Update, November 15th:</b> <a href="http://blog.yo.lk/en/2012/11/15/select-menus-enhanced-search">You can now search for groups, too.</a> E.g, search for a customer in the select »Project«.</p>
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<b>Update, January 28th:</b> The new selects under the tab »Time tracking« now adapt their width to the space available, too. They show up to ten more characters.</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3712012-08-29T18:25:00+02:002012-08-29T18:25:09+02:00Find customers, projects, services, and users<p>Got tired of scrolling through all too long lists of customers, projects, services, or users to find what you&#8217;re looking for? Help is here: <em>mite</em> now features a smart search for each of those tabs.</p>
<p><img src="/uploads/search-find.png" alt="Search for archived projects" /></p>
<p>To find an object, click into the search field in the right sidebar or press <b>f</b> on your keyboard, and type the first characters of your search term. In modern browsers, results will show up and adapt as you type. In older browsers and Internet Explorers &lt;10, press return or click on the magnifying glass icon to start your search.</p>
<p>Generally, <em>mite</em> finds all objects whose names include your search term. Furthermore, you can search for customer names under the tab »Projects« as well as for e-mail addresses under »Team« by simply using the same search box.</p>
<p>Cheers to a speedier <em>mite</em>! Hopefully, today&#8217;s update will improve the handling especially for hard-working teams.</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3702012-08-15T17:35:00+02:002012-08-15T17:38:08+02:00Scheduled Maintenance<p>Tonight, our servers will need some maintenance. <em>mite</em> won&#8217;t be available twice for ~five minutes each. The first unavailability will start at ~3:30am <span class="caps">CEST</span>, the second one will occur between 5:30 and 7:30am <span class="caps">CEST</span> (<a href="http://permatime.com/Europe/Berlin/2012-08-16/03:30">what time is that for me?</a>).</p>
<p>Tonight&#8217;s maintenance originates from a production error in our <span class="caps">IBM</span> database servers. The error, which also lead to July&#8217;s hiccups, will be fixed by a firmware update, which unfortunately cannot be installed during normal operation. We ask for your understanding.</p>
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Update: Maintenance went as planned. <em>mite</em> was unavailable a total of 5 minutes.</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3672012-08-01T22:37:00+02:002012-08-01T22:38:59+02:00Updated Terms of Service<p>We updated our Terms of Service. The new version is located at its <a href="http://mite.yo.lk/en/terms.html">usual place</a>, the former version can still be accessed <a href="http://mite.yo.lk/en/terms-until-20120731.html">here</a>.</p>
<h3>Bottom line</h3>
<p>Nothing fundamental changes, and nothing changes to your disadvantage.</p>
<p>[more]<h3>Quick overview</h3></p>
<p>One, we adjusted some minor things due to new German legal directives.</p>
<p>Two, we aligned the ToS to how we really handle <em>mite</em>. E.g., there hasn&#8217;t been a single newsletter during the last few years. Thus, we don&#8217;t really need a clause dealing with newsletters.</p>
<p>Three, we changed our 30-day trial. Every now and then, users were irritated how we handled the trial payment. This should not happen. Before, it was a nonbinding trial: if you decided to use <em>mite</em>, we charged this period retroactively. Now, it is a completely free trial: you won&#8217;t have to pay for the trial phase even if you become a paying customer. The first month is on us, period.</p>
<p>Four, we wanted to make our ToS easier to read and understand. We revised every phrase and simplified it if possible. Plus, we reorganized and repositioned some clauses. Last but not least, every clause in &#8220;legal speak&#8221; is now accompanied by a short summary in plain English. We saw these snippets at <a href="http://500px.com/terms">500px</a> for the first time, and got excited. To us, this seems to be the way to go if you really want to commit to simplicity and transparency.</p>
<h3>Detailed changelog</h3>
<p>Changes in wording and positioning excluded, our ToS have changed as follows:<ol><li>Clause 1<br />New comment dealing with the short summaries</li><br />
<li>Clause 3<br />Changed trial handling: completely free instead of nonbinding</li><br />
<li>Clause 3 &amp; clause 5<br />New German legal directive (»Button-Lösung«)</li><br />
<li>Clause 4<br />New clause dealing with beta users</li><br />
<li>Clause 7 (former clause 11)<br />Adjusted deadline for data removal after cancellation: 14 days after cancellation instead of 7 days after the end of last billing cycle</li><br />
<li>Clause 7 (former clause 11)<br />Changed deadline for possible cancellation after delay of payment: 8 weeks instead of 4</li><br />
<li>Clause 8 (former clause 5)<br />More precise definition of data that has to been specified truthfully</li><br />
<li>Clause 8 (former clause 5)<br />Removed paragraph pointing to German law</li><br />
<li>Clause 8 (former clause 5)<br />Softened definition of abusive useage</li><br />
<li>Clause 9<br />New clause dealing with our <span class="caps">API</span></li><br />
<li>Clause 12 (former clause 9)<br />Updated liability limitation</li><br />
<li>Former clause 12<br />Removed clause dealing with (non-existing) newsletters</li><br />
<li>Clause 14 (former clause 13)<br />Updated objection period if ToS change: 6 weeks instead of 14 days</li></ol></p>
<p>For current customers our updated ToS will become effective in six weeks, for new customers with the creation of an account or the conclusion of a contract. If you do not object within six weeks in textual form, you accept our updated ToS. Should you object, we&#8217;re entitled to terminate and end our contract.</p>
<h3>That&#8217;s it</h3>
<p>Hopefully, you appreciate our updated ToS, especially the idea to accompany each clause with a short version in plain English! ToS should be understandable per default. We&#8217;d love to see this idea spread—or similar approaches such as the early-stage project <a href="http://tos-dr.info/">Terms of Service; Didn&#8217;t Read</a>. If they got well-know, they could apply sometimes much needed pressure from the outside.</p>tag:blog.yo.lk,2008:Post/3692012-07-27T17:00:00+02:002012-07-27T21:36:39+02:00Scheduled Maintenance<p>Today, Friday evening, maintenance will take place starting at 9pm <span class="caps">CEST</span> (<a href="http://permatime.com/Europe/Berlin/2012-07-27/21:00">what time is that for me?</a>). <em>mite</em> won’t be available for 30 to 45 minutes.</p>
<p>This maintenance is the consequence of <a href="http://blog.yo.lk/en/2012/07/25/today-s-server-problems">this morning&#8217;s interruption</a>. Our database server went down. To get <em>mite</em> back up asap during working day hours, we switched to our failover database server. This evening, our database will move to its former home, the more powerful main database server. The maintenance downtime is inevitable to avoid data corruption with 100% safety.</p>
<p>Again, and hopefully for the last time for a long long future: We ask for your understanding.</p>
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Update: Maintenance went as planned. <em>mite</em> was unavailable for 21 minutes.</p>